health policy Articles
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Longevity in Nepal: health, policy and service provision challenges
Longevity is a relatively recent phenomenon in Nepal; over the past few decades the priority in Nepal has been reducing infant and maternal mortality. With an increasingly ageing population and changing patterns of migration, this brings with it challenges to Nepali society in terms of meeting the needs of an ageing population and creating a policy environment that ensures these needs are met. ...
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Predictability of Swimming Prohibitions by Observational Parameters: A Proactive Public Health Policy, Stamford, Connecticut, 19892004
Using compiled bacterial analyses to predict water quality when certain conditions are observed provides a way to establish a proactive public health policy. In this study, the authors reviewed using the geometric mean various conditions including the amount of rain in previous days, wind direction and speed, tides and high tide height, water temperature, drought or flood conditions for the ...
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Reinventing the pig: the negotiation of risks and rights in the USA xenotransplantation debate
Xenotransplantation (XTP) involves the transplantation of cells, tissues and organs from non-human mammals (usually pigs) to humans. Because XTP could produce considerable public health gains, advocates want to proceed to human clinical trials as soon as possible. However, XTP also raises complex regulatory issues, since virtually all scientists agree that there is a risk of pig endogenous ...
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A public health policy approach to reducing economic and health costs of obesity in the USA
Obesity is rapidly increasing in the USA. It is one of the most serious public health problems that significantly increase the risk of many chronic illnesses. Obesity disproportionately affects people with lower incomes and minority groups and imposes a heavy financial burden on the healthcare system in the USA. Thus, there is a critical need for healthcare policies that are designed to stem the ...
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From environment and health data to policy-making: the case of DDE in Belgium
One of the key challenges in environment and health research is the measurement and interpretation of this complex relation, whereas one of the key challenges in environment and health policy-making is the translation of environment and health data to policy measures. In this paper, we describe a process in which these two challenges are integrated: the interpretation of human biomonitoring ...
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Implementation and perception of risk management practices in health/fitness facilities
The health/fitness industry is an important contributor to the national preventative health policies against obesity and associated health risk factors. However, inappropriately designed programs and services can increase the risk of injuries and adverse health outcomes that can expose health/fitness facility operators and employees to risk of litigation. Therefore, the importance of ...
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WTP- and QALY-Based Approaches to Valuing Health for Policy: Common Ground and Disputed Territory
This paper discusses links between two approaches to the value of health: the willingness to pay approach of environmental economics and the quality-adjusted life year approach of health economics. The approaches are used in cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses of health interventions. Despite fundamental differences in the decision contexts and conceptual foundations of the two ...
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Consistency in terminal care?
A research study has been published by the Primary palliative care research group in Scotland, jointly carried out between Lothian NHS, the University of Edinburgh, and the Marie Curie charity. It found the need for more consistency in care and treatment at an earlier stage in terminal illness. Improvement in service has occurred, and the Scottish Government is funding further improvement under ...
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Economic Valuation of Health for Environmental Policy: Comparing Alternative Approaches. Introduction and Overview
Protecting human health is a primary goal of environmental policy and economic evaluation of health can help policy-makers judge the relative worth of alternative actions. Economists use two distinct approaches in normatively evaluating health. Whereas environmental economists use benefit-cost analysis supported by monetary valuation in terms of willingness-to-pay, health economists evaluate ...
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Taxonomies in the strategic management of health technology: the case of multiperiod compartmental HIV/AIDS policy models
This paper reflects on the role and potential of multidimensional taxonomies in the strategic management of health technology. A case in point is multiperiod compartmental modelling of the HIV/AIDS pandemic where our comprehensive taxonomy can be instrumental in the evaluation of current policy tools and the exploration of possible extensions. For this purpose, we first briefly point to sample ...
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What’s Top of Mind for Flu Researchers?
Infectious diseases like influenza can be threats to public health and our economy. At the OPTIONS XI for the Control of Influenza conference, leading influenza vaccines provider CSL Seqirus, joined academic, government, research and industry stakeholders to discuss and learn more about influenza and its impact. Below, CSL Seqirus shared additional insights into topics of interest to the ...
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What price health?
When it comes to health care, the balance between cost and effectiveness is a difficult one to strike. The injection of $1.1 billion into the US system therefore needs to produce sustainable results. A middle-aged man appears in a US emergency room complaining of chest pains. Tests show that an arterial blockage is starving his heart of oxygen. He could have treatment A, or treatment B. Which ...
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Key points to succeed in Artificial Intelligence drug discovery projects
Abstract Drug discovery and development is an expensive, complex, and time-consuming task [5]. Recently, the development of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to drug discovery, specifically de novo drug design through the use of deep generative models, has triggered a lot of interest in the drug hunter community, especially as an important tool to speed up the process ...
By Iktos
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Top level security - from simulation to reality - Case Study
Summary Specialist design, planning and implementation Located on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way coastline, Kerry Airport services one of the country’s premier tourist destinations. To ensure the highest levels of security and a superior customer experience, the decision was made to replace existing passenger checkpoint security scanners with the latest ECAC EDS CB C3 compliant ...
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Seven Strategies for Managing HR Risk Amid the Coronavirus Crisis
Organizations have made dozens of changes to HR policies in response to the fast-moving coronavirus crisis. Initial concerns about work-from-home edicts and restrictions on travel have given way to simply keeping employees safe and the company running – all while navigating a myriad of constantly shifting pandemic-related jurisdictional rules. Both employees and employers are reeling from ...
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A look around the world at mental health in the workplace
Among the countless number of occupational diseases workers are exposed to globally, mental health issues have proved to be one of the most dangerous. Studies continue to confirm their accountability for a majority of long-term leaves from work, just behind cancer. Although there has been marked increase in campaigns addressing mental health and its consequences in the workplace, there remains a ...
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Three ways you can help your health while helping the environment
When you look to the year ahead, what do you see? Ensia recently invited eight global thought leaders to share their thoughts. In this interview Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, responds to three questions: What will be the biggest challenge to address or opportunity to grasp in your field in 2017? Why? And what should we be doing ...
By Ensia
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Timeline of OSHAs COVID-19 Vaccination, Testing and Face Covering ETS
Federal OSHA's Congressionally assigned scope is protection of employees from hazards created within the workplace by work processes and work materials. For every past pandemic, OSHA has made the distinction that general protective measures are under the purview of the Department of Health. This is the first time OSHA has stepped into the public health arena. To clarify the difference, ...
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Introducing Navigating Cancer’s Medical Advisory Board Ahead of ASCO Presentations Illustrating Equitable Cancer Care Innovation
Navigating Cancer is filling an important role in the healthcare community during a time that has placed tremendous pressure on healthcare providers to better support a growing and diverse patient population, outside-of-the-clinic. Digital health tools and remote symptom monitoring enable more efficient care delivery and improve patient outcomes – while providing actionable insights based ...
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Algae toxins linked to brain diseases found in Florida
An innovative field study in Southwest Florida has identified several neurotoxins in the state’s air and water. The three forms of BMAA – beta-Methylamino-L-alanine – are associated with brain diseases. The study conducted by Calusa Waterkeeper volunteers and analysed by Wyoming’s Brain Chemistry Labs identified two forms of BMAA in every sample from 945 completed over ...
By LG Sonic
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